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Shots fired at migrants at the US-Mexico border: Video footage shows security forces firing pepper bullets at people attempting to cross the Rio Grande river illegally.
Hundreds of refugees from Venezuela and Central America had previously demonstrated on the Mexican side of the border in Ciudad Juarez for their entry into the United States.
Later, individuals threw stones at the border police, and one officer was injured by a flagpole.
Elias Puente Segura was trying to cross the Rio Grande when the projectiles hit him in the neck and back.
Elias Puente Segura, migrant from Venezuela:
'When I was in the river they shot me once - and then again and again.
The cowards mistreat us because we are unarmed, poor, and working people.
Like everyone else, we have rights.
And they welcome us that way.”
During their demonstration, people held a huge USA flag over their heads.
Inscription: »We migrants built America«.
A clear protest against the United States immigration policy introduced in October.
After that, up to 24,000 people from Venezuela will be allowed to enter the United States.
At the same time, the United States is also allowed to send back to Mexico all refugees from Venezuela who try to cross the border illegally.
In the hope of being able to somehow get to North America, hundreds of Venezuelans are currently gathering in a makeshift camp right on the Rio Grande.
Yaneiri Hernandez, migrant from Venezuela
'It shouldn't be like that.
We are not animals, we are humans.
We want to go to the US to work, not to do bad things.
We spent several days here and slept like animals.
The Mexicans are the ones who provided us with food, clothes, shoes and blankets.«
According to the United Nations, more than seven million people have fled Venezuela in recent years to escape the economic and social collapse of the once-prosperous oil nation.
In the USA, the Republicans are using the situation in the election campaign for the midterms: Joe Biden is said to be to blame for the increasing immigration.
And the situation on the border with Mexico is completely out of control.